tigerbengalis wrote: Tim-- Where is your evidence that anti-semitism of any time is due to resource competition?
Well, as discussed already on this thread, if you read the German antisemites of the 1870's and onward, the predominant themes are complaints about Jewish domination of German finance, industry and journalism. I don't know if you dispute this or not. This is an example of resource competition. Jews were outcompeting Germans for access to money, education, and the levers of political power in Germany. Also consider Arab antisemitism. This is based almost entirely on the artificial insertion of a Jewish State in their midst which has displaced the original Arab inhabitants and which is openly expansionistic and is rapidly settling more and more territory. Then again look at the black/Jewish split in the States. These former allies in the civil rights movements are now frequently at each other's throats. A major cause of this rift were conflicts caused when Jews started getting jobs as teachers in New York City - jobs that had traditionally gone to blacks. Why do you find this surprising? This is just human nature. Tim Howells
